Vasylyev S. Aesthetics of Carnivality in the Artistic Structure of the Film.

The thesis is devoted to the analysis of the aesthetics of carnivality in the artistic structure of the film. The thesis dwells on the carnival as a cultural phenomenon. Special attention is paid to the determination of conceptual principles of the works of one of the most authoritative investigators of the carnival aesthetics M.Bakhtin. The main aesthetic attributes of the carnival have been determined. On the basis of studying the epoch of Romanticism it has been shown how the carnival came to be the subject of theoretical and artistic interpretation. The manifestations of the carnival aesthetics in the films of such world-famous filmdirectors as S.Eisenstein, I.Bergman, F.Fellini, E.Kousturitca are being investigated. The motif of a mask being accentuated in its cinematographic incarnation.